| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.1

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Stig Thøgersen. A County of Culture: Twentieth-Century China Seen from the Village Schools of Zouping, Shandong. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2002. Pp. 310. $52.50.

Against the backdrop of China's shifting political and economic policies during the twentieth century, Stig Thøgersen examines education issues in Zouping County, Shandong, as a way to understand the dynamic between society and state in the making of a modern nation. While suggesting a "bottom up" analysis of educational reforms in Zouping, this volume essentially follows a periodization derived from the narrative of China's nation-state building experience emphasizing political shifts at the top. Stressing continuity in local goals, Thøgersen finds no significant analytical differentiation in place-based views of educational issues in the last century. With the state as the primary agent of change, rural society is understood as a confounding and inhibiting element in national modernization strategies rather than as a voice struggling for its own coherence and alternative place-based vision.

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